Category Archives: Theatre
New Born, by Ella Hickson
This got a tremendous review from the New York Times, and it was mostly sold out — you could get a seat here and there on different nights, which is how I got a single seat toward the back of … Continue reading
Art Isn’t Easy, by Daniel Okrent
I’d have to go through my playbills and figure out when it was that Stephen Sondheim and his husband sat down next to my friend. He (Sondheim, not my friend), died in late 2021 so I’m thinking it was before … Continue reading
Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare
I attended a fairly famous production of this play in the summer of 1981 but I can’t find any information about it online. It offended hordes of people because the director staged it like an S&M fever dream, with Achilles … Continue reading
Here We Are, by Stephen Sondheim and others.
This is being touted as Stephen Sondheim’s last musical, but it is not. The last musical he wrote which reached Broadway was Assassins. He wrote another musical which was called Road Show out of town and Bounce when it made … Continue reading
Coriolanus
I don’t think it’s necessary to add who wrote this. This version was very helpful in that half of the book is the Oxford World’s Classics essay about the play. The play itself only takes up about less than half … Continue reading